Interest Inventory

Interest Inventory

1. What is your favorite activity or subject? Why? Your least favorite? Why?

My favorite activities are reading and doing theater because both are unlimited. I don't have a least favorite subject.

2. What are your best subjects? What makes them easiest for you?

My best subjects are probably lit and theater subject because they capture my interest the most.

3. What subjects are difficult for you? What makes them the hardest?

Any subject is interesting to me as long as it is presented in a way that captures my interest. What I mean is that if something just seems tedious, even if it is reading a book (and I really love reading) I find it really hard to bring myself to do it.

4. What subject makes you think and work the hardest? Why is it the most challenging?

Literature and theater are the subject that I invest the most time in and try to challenge myself most in.

5. Rate the following topics according to your interests (1 very interested, 2 somewhat interested, 3 not interested):

a) Dance- 1, b) Music- 1, c) Drama- 1, d) Sports- 2, e) Writing-1, f) Math- 2, g) Computers- 3, h) Science- 2, i) Social Studies- 2, j) Business- 3, k) World Languages- 1, l) Politics/Law- 1, , m) other interests ( visual arts -1)

6. What are your favorite games or sports?

Volleyball, swimming and dancing

7. If you could learn about anything you wanted to, what would you choose to learn about? Be specific.

Astology, the Beat Generation, history and styles of theater, history and styles of music, different religions (including dead religions), any language (including dead languages), any new instrument, skydiving, underwater diving, sword fighting, fencing....and many many many other things.

8. What are three things you like to when you have free time (besides seeing your friends)?

Read and write, spend time at the beach, walk on stilts

9. What clubs, groups, organizations do you belong to?

TeatRUM

10. What things have you collected in the past? What, if anything, are you currently collecting?

Books, postcards or posters with actors and musicians I like.

11. Have you ever taught yourself to do something without the help of another person? If so, what?

I taught myself to draw, and I taught myself to cook (and I'm still teaching myself)

12. If you were going to start a book club, what kinds of books would your club read?

Bukowski, Kerouac, Burroughs...and a lot more but I'm pretty tired of listing ^^;

13. If people were to come to you for information about something you know a lot about, what would the topic be?

Books, authors, and cooking

14.If you could plan a field trip for learning, where would you go? Why would you choose that place?

I would go to the library in Alexandria. But if it had to be real I would choose any country I haven't been to.

15. When you’re using the computer, what are you usually doing? Why?

Working or checking my e-mail. I don't like spending much time online, so other than the online tutoring I do I don't use the internet for much else.

16. If you could interview an expert on any subject, what subject would you like to talk to someone about? Who would you like to interview about that subject if you could?

I'd like to interview a director such as Anne Bogart, Augusto Boal, or Suzuki on their views of theater.

17. If you could interview one significant person from the past and one from the present, who would you interview? Why would you choose these two people?

I would choose Augusto Boal from the present, because he has managed to bring theater to the public in a way that gives people an outlet to express themselves without fear of oppression, it is a theater that makes people aware of their own voice and their own abilities and power to solve social problems. From the past I would interview Khalil Gibran because he was an amazing writer and person overall. His writings are amazing, and I would just really love to sit down and talk to him.

18. What careers are you currently interested in?

Right now, I am interested in continuing my life as a student. Hopefully I'll be able to get a doctorates degree in Theater. After that, I would love to work in anything in theater.

19. In my classes I prefer to work:

Alone

20. In school I learn best:

Alone

21. What helps you learn?

Reading and hands-on activities.

22. What makes learning more difficult for you?

If there is not enough interesting interaction.

23. Think of a great teacher you've had. Describe what made this teacher so terrific.

My music teacher from high school never acted like he was inherently superior to his students, yet he always had their respect. He listened to the students and I learned a lot from him.

24. What past school assignment or project are you proudest of? Why?

I don't know if I would say I am "proudest" of it, but one that sticks out in my mind is a project where I had to develop a fully functional roller coaster using foam tubing and a marble. The marble had to go all the way across the roller coaster without falling or stopping, and it had to come to a safe stop (by itself) at the end.

25. What project done outside of school are you proudest of? Why?

The plays that I have helped with, because I feel that they have all been worthwhile.